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Outcomes

Earnings trajectory

Earnings across the first decade (P25 / median / P75)

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients, graduating cohort 0000 (118,563 graduates). Each point is one published percentile, not an average across fields.

Median earnings · 10yr
$62,377
Cost-adjusted: $64,266
Median debt (completers)
$18,194
Debt/earnings ratio: 0.29
3-yr default rate
0.0%
Borrowers who entered repayment in the published cohort year, not current students

College Scorecard. Earnings are measured ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike — not ten years after graduation.

Median earnings reach $62,377 a decade after entry — strong in absolute terms and strong relative to peers. Outcomes diverge sharply: a quarter of the students measured earn under $39,375 ten years after entry while a quarter clear $92,999. Adjusted for local cost of living, that median is effectively $64,266 — the surrounding area is cheap enough that the salary stretches further than the raw figure suggests. Students who finish carry a median of $18,194 in debt. A debt-to-income ratio of 0.29 means borrowing here is proportionate to the payoff.

Earnings percentiles by field (Census PSEO)

One row per field and graduating cohort. Rows that share a field are different graduating classes, not repeats.

Field Graduating cohort Years after grad P25 Median P75
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2019 1 $26,659 $35,940 $49,399
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2016 1 $27,582 $37,198 $49,035
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2013 1 $39,884 $49,855 $61,703
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 0000 1 $27,999 $40,834 $56,595
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2016 5 $50,676 $67,887 $82,929
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 2013 5 $51,223 $66,619 $91,987
Natural Resources and Conservation (03) 0000 5 $50,050 $66,438 $85,965
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 2019 1 $26,659 $35,940 $49,399
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 2016 1 $27,582 $37,198 $49,035
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 2013 1 $39,884 $49,855 $61,703
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 0000 1 $27,999 $40,834 $56,595
Natural Resources Conservation and Research (03.01) 2016 5 $50,676 $67,887 $82,929

Census PSEO, bachelor's degree recipients — earnings measured 1, 5 and 10 years after graduation, unlike the Scorecard figures above. The all-fields institution total is published separately and is not one of the rows above. A cohort label covers a pooling window of three or five graduating years, which PSEO does not publish per cell.

Independent ROI ranking

Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce ranked this school #403 of 4,419 US colleges by 40-year return on investment — the net present value of attending after costs.

10-year NPV
$168,000
20-year NPV
$595,000
40-year NPV
$1,232,000

Georgetown University CEW, Ranking 4,500 Colleges by ROI (2022)